G. W. Holland Plantation

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The G.W. Holland Plantation was a moderate plantation of 1600 acres (6½ km²) located in northern Leon County, Florida, United States established by Griffin W. Holland. Holland was married in 1839 to Margaret Whitaker.

Contents 1 Location 2 Plantation statistics 3 The owner 4 References

[edit] Location

The G.W. Holland Plantation would now be a good portion of County Road 12, Gallen Drive, Henry Beadel Drive including Tall Timbers Research Station, Iamonia Landing Road including the small African-American neighborhoods located on Waterfront Drive, Pelican Lane, Seagull Lane, and Annabelle Lane.

[edit] Plantation statistics

The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the Holland plantation had the following:

• Improved Land: 1200 acres (5 km²)
• Unimproved Land: 1400 acres (5 km²)
• Cash value of plantation: $30,000
• Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $1200
• Cash value of farm animals: $7000
• Number of slaves: 95
• Bushels of corn: 7000
• Bales of cotton: 225

[edit] The owner

G.W. Holland was a signee to the Southern Rights Association of Centreville District on secession from the Union for the protection of Southern interests and the vindication of Southern rights to preserve and protect the Constitution in its purity as the basis of Federal compact, and the only foundation on which the Union of the States was made, or on which that Union should be preserved. [1]

[edit] References

• Rootsweb Plantations
• Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Sschedules
• Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968.